Rising from Ground Zero: 9/11 and the FDNY's Path through Crisis to Transformation

Rising from Ground Zero presents the story of the FDNY, a proud, long standing, and widely respected organization that suffered intense systemic shock on September 11, 2001. Using over 90 hours of never-before-published author-conducted responder interviews, mainly FDNY firefighters, this book relates the story of battling through the crisis, managing the aftermath, and constructing the future.

The interviews provide a vital oral history of the experience of handling the path of the FDNY th...